The Dickinson press., 1887-07-23
GOING DOWN TO JERICHO.
The Rocky Road from observation-disclosures.
esquc Bcdouin Guitlcs-Grand View.

Ane lSOCky Road from JeruSNlcm-rictUr.
esquc Bcdouin Guidcs.-(;rand View.
The thieves hereabouts, namely the Bed.
ouins, are not all done AWAY with yet AT all
events, people going from Jerusalem Dead
Stewards must be provided with guards,
who, on the principle that it takes a thief to
catch thief, ore also BedouinS picturesque
looking fellows, too, they nre, in their long,
two foot wide, striped i'll black and white
ulster cloakS, and their silken, tasSeled head
gear, with long, brass bound gun slung
across the back, II big revolver in the belt,
and n curved Damascus sword swinging
Jauntily from one side. Picturesque indeed
your Gctouin is, rs he moves along in never
so stately fashion OH his Arabian horse,
vouchSating once i'll while to turn his
bronzed, black whiSkcred face around to see
how You are getting on. But of thieves we
saw none, though the shepherds along the
road glarel meaningly once in while. III
deed, news has just come of an intrepid Amer
lean proceeding alone to tho Jordan having
all ugly encounter.
We read the expression "lown to Jericho. !"
down indeed, from an altitude of $500 feet
above to a depth of 1000 feet below. You
pass around Olivet by the supposed triumpLal
path of our Lord, and then in half an hours
experience with the mcanest of stone heaps,
find yourself at Bethany, where of course
they are ready to show you hut called "the
house of Martha and Nary" while the tomb
of Lazarus is as aSsuredly not lacking-in a
country where the slightest slrcs of not only
Scripture hut tradition are made of account
III tho manufacture of holy 10 places. Then
follows siege of saddle work, ono could
hardly call 1T riding, of going down into the
valleys by the stoniest of roads, and of
ascending of hills by the same sort. 1t is
little consolation to bruised bones that it is
the brook Cherith at the valley of Achor that
you Sec This up and down process, if we'll
kept up for six hours, brings one to n grind
view, namely that of this wide plain through
which flows the Jordan to tho Dead Sea living
large and blue seemingly at our feet, and
bordered on the opposite shore by the steep
Neho mountains, intlistinct toward the sou,i,
from the mist which the remarkable cvapora-
tion of water causes to form over the surface
of the lake Over there, among those high
lands, is Moab, not Il village, or even dwell
ing, i'll sight to break its vast monotuny.
Behind that dcsolatc shore and land of Moab
is Arabia, and when one thinks of the inn
mcnse stretch of desert to where water in the
Shape of the Persian gulf can break upon the
sight, this lack of life seems not an unfitting
introduction
Slowly the caravan dcsccnds into the plain.
"Where is Jcricho!" says some one, hardly
thinking that the handful of huts just beyond
the orange trees can be the modern represent.
ativc of the proud old city Whose walls br-
havrd III such an unnatural waa when the
intrepid Joshua marched his forces against
them, and the priests blew their trumpets.
Still, man whom God delegated to control
the sun and moon might well be left to take
care of II city. Two hours away lies the Dead
Sra-tho city of Elijah's later life, the city
where Saul came to be made king, where Du-
vid returned from exile, tho then "city of
palms. now not a single ono lcft-approncll-
ing the water as near us possible, but no palm
city could be built OH shores which were
bliShtcd with salt-E. j. Baldwin's Letter in
Cleveland Leader,